ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL LAB TESTING
The Key Is … ADVANCED TESTING!
FUNCTIONAL LAB TESTING
In Functional or ‘Foundational’ Medicine, we often refer to ourselves as ‘Disease Detectives’.
So, how do we find the HIDDEN clues that lie at the ROOT of your health challenges?
To start, we rely on the one ESSENTAIL tool that’s usually the first choice when trying to get to the bottom of any health symptom.
I’m talking about…
Ordering the right tests.
Functional lab testing helps identify hormone imbalances, metabolic issues, thyroid problems, autoimmune dysfunction, and so much more.
Question: Is a ‘normal’ lab result all your doctor is looking for?
If so, what exactly is NORMAL?
Most people assume that the lab values that they are being compared to are the ‘healthy’ ranges.
Not so!
They are more often the ‘average’ range.
In LIFESTYLE medicine, our goal is to OPTIMIZE your health.
That means bringing you to baseline and BEYOND.
Not merely to ‘FEEL OK’.
Therefore, we use DIFFERENT tests with DIFFERENT (usually narrower and more optimal) RANGES.
Advanced Metabolic Testing is the key to Functional Medicine Success!
It is very common to find things that MOST DOCTORS MISS.
We’re not smarter, we just have a DIFFERENT SET OF TOOLS.
Regular lab work is NOT enough! Advanced Testing is the key!
Functional Advanced Lab Testing commonly involves:
- Gut or MICROBIOME analysis
- HORMONE (including FAT BURNING hormones) testing
- Inflammatory markers
- FOOD SENSITIVITY or INTOLERANCES
- Environmental TOXICITY
- MOLD or MYCOTOXINS
- HEAVY METALS
- MICRONUTRIENT deficiencies
- Lyme
- And MUCH, MUCH MORE.
To get the superior results, we DO NOT GUESS…
We TEST!